Russia cannot manage without labour migrants. Interest is currently growing in workers from Africa and India, since they are even more powerless and compliant than workers from Central Asia. The latter today face discrimination and harassment in the country.
Since the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk in March 2024, people from Central Asia have experienced a greater degree of discrimination in Russia than ever before. Hatred began to spread after two (…)

Internationalist popular victories in the sphere of imperialist wars are too rare not to highlight. They may take the form of resilience and endurance, which is already enormous—particularly in Palestine but also in Ukraine. Internationalist popular resistance to the fascist-Zionist genocide is more limited in the United States and Canada but more massive in many European countries, where in Italy it reached the quasi-level of a brief general strike. Despite repression in numerous (…)

Les victoires populaires internationalistes dans la sphère des guerres impérialistes sont trop rares pour ne pas les souligner. Il peut s'agir de résilience et d'endurance ce qui est déjà énorme surtout en Palestine mais aussi en Ukraine. La résistance populaire internationaliste au génocide facho-sioniste est plus limitée aux États-Unis et au Canada mais plus massive dans maints pays européens où elle a atteint en Italie un quasi niveau de brève grève générale. Malgré les répressions dans (…)

In his Le Devoir column “Les saboteurs” (“The Saboteurs”), Michel David reports that both Québec solidaire today (though not its leadership until recently), and the Parti Québécois—including its current leader—acknowledge in black and white that the PQ is a “non-inclusive” party, that is to say an “identitarian” one. These are coded words signifying anti-immigrant—in other words, words referring to xenophobia if not racism, given the predominantly non-white composition of current (…)

The Legault government's attacks on the popular majority of Quebeckers are neither isolated nor circumstantial. They are part of a broader political realignment, shaped by the authoritarian and imperial hardening of American policy under Trump and by Canada's increasing vassalisation to this orientation.
1. The predatory course and hegemonic ambitions of the current American administration
The new United States national security strategy, based on increased militarisation, economic (…)